Welcome to Litsy!

I loved this memoire of growing and raising your own food. I never had any delusions of it being easy (enforced child labor in my mother‘s garden) and I‘m happy for someone to slaughter and butcher the meat I eat, I want to know where my food comes from. I love how generous she was with her food, even after someone stole her one and only watermelon. And the way the neighbors came together, all different cultures and backgrounds bonding over food.

Re-read.

A few days late, but here were May‘s reads. Pretty good month!

Decided to get some gardening inspiration. Little worried about my garden because we‘re getting a late cold snap! 👩🏼‍🌾🍅🥒🥕

It took me awhile to get through this. I must say that if I ever had a romantic notion to dabble in farm life (yes), this book killed it. Listening made me tired, let alone doing the chores that I was hearing about. 2/5 🐓s

I've read this book twice. It makes me laugh, it inspires me, it's honest. Urban farming is something I am longing to embrace.

Part I: 🦃 Part II: 🐇 Part III: 🐖

This is a memoir of an urban farmer in Oakland. Novella took advantage of Oakland's lawlessness and used it to do good by pirating some abandoned lots and transforming them into an urban farm. I loved her wit and sense of humor. She says what she wants without much of a filter button. What I didn't love is she comes off as being a holier-than-thou city snob. She also has a reckless "buy now, research later" approach, which made me uncomfortable!

"Defining ourselves by what we eat--that's what we do for fun around here." Possibly the most true statement about the Bay Area I've ever read...

ah, there it is. The face. #catsoflitsy

My cat has no face. #catsoflitsy

Someone please bring back these billboards. Now all the billboards in Oakland are weird churchy jesus apocalypse or grocery tax propaganda.

This totally sounds like the anarchist cafe in Santa Cruz. It's open for like 6 hours a week at random times (whenever people feel like coming to work, basically) and is run by a bunch of tyrant kids who change the rules weekly to meet the guidelines of the latest dogmatic agenda of theirs.

Oakland in a nutshell!